This will be my first time "trying" to help out rather than asking for help. I'd like to be more involved but generally have more problems than solutions. Firstly apologies if this is in the wrong part of the forum, I'm sure those in charge will delete it if its useless/dangerous or move it to the correct place.

Disclaimer: I'm not expert and am not entirely sure if this is the correct way of doing things. I don't think it will break anything but...

Anyway I recently installed LMDE XFCE on my laptop. Upon booting to the login screen there was what can only be described as an annoying very load system/console beep. It didn't matter what I did to stop this (mute, system settings, etc) nothing worked. Anyway I fired up Duck Duck Go and straight away a (well known) solution was provided:

If this works for you then you need read no longer, if like me it doesn't/didn't then you might be using an intel soundcard module: snd_hda_intel. This module has a beep mode and it is defaulted on and that's apparently why the beep remained. So what you need to do is:

Points to note that I didn't have to blacklist pcspkr to stop the beep and I can take no credit for this solution and it is found here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=65327 I thought it was quite hard to find but then I'm not search master.

Theres another "solution" in that thread involving the editing /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults which didn't work for me but might for you. Remember to back up the files you're editing just in case.

Cheers

daozen.

Last edited by daozen on Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:28 am, edited 1 time in total.

Thank you! One of the computers that I often take to meetings has a system beep that distinctly resembles a short, intense baritone fart. I usually remember to avoid actions that provoke the beep, but sometimes I make some tiny mistake (e.g. tapping the BackSpace key once too often within a search box), and my computer breaks wind, bringing smirks from my neighbours. (My gestures of "The flatulence isn't mine; it's my computer's" of course aren't credible.) Your tip will save me embarrassment in the future.

Microcord wrote:Thank you! One of the computers that I often take to meetings has a system beep that distinctly resembles a short, intense baritone fart. I usually remember to avoid actions that provoke the beep, but sometimes I make some tiny mistake (e.g. tapping the BackSpace key once too often within a search box), and my computer breaks wind, bringing smirks from my neighbours. (My gestures of "The flatulence isn't mine; it's my computer's" of course aren't credible.) Your tip will save me embarrassment in the future.

Assuming the loud beep is through the system speakers, another method is to disable the Beep device in an ALSA mixer GUI. You might need to add the Beep device to the mixer (in its Preferences), before you can disable it.